Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Prine: Bruised Orange (Asylum). A lot of folk, a touch of country, and plenty of grace and pain...
Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy (Asylum). "Send lawyers, guns and money/ Dad, get me out of this." Snub-nose tales of blown chances, aching loss and creatures that prowl the night, fused into a perfect genre piece by the foremost exponent of hard-boiled rock...
...harbor. "The flow is so great," reports TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein, "that countries in the area are becoming increasingly reluctant to accept new arrivals, even temporarily. And as the tide of refugees rises, it is straining the ability-and the willingness -of more distant nations to grant them permanent asylum...
Malaysia claims that people who leave Viet Nam in such fashion are not refugees but illegal immigrants who should be refused asylum. Others disagree. "These people," says one Western refugee official, "have risked their lives escaping what they consider intolerable conditions. The fact that they paid bribes doesn't make them any less refugees than were Jews who escaped Nazi Germany. Many of those people paid bribes...
...Hungary, every diocese now .has a bishop for the first time since 1948. But while an estimated 65% of the population are Catholic, far fewer attend religious services. That is partly the result of a long vacuum in Catholic leadership during Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty's 15 years of asylum in the U.S. embassy in Budapest. The appeal of the spiritual is by no means dead, though. When Protestants invited Billy Graham to Hungary last year, his first rally drew...